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Old 04-06-2005, 20:45   #2
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Re: Home Network Firewall

Firstly - hope you stick around!

It has NAT which by design is a primitive firewall- all PCs connecting through the router, either wired or wireless, have basic protection from attacks originating from the Internet (inbound).

However, you should still have a personal firewall on each PC, so that you can control what traffic is leaving your PC (outbound) as a router alone will not provide that. Plus, you have an extra line of defence then.

Don't forget the wireless security, and if you want to use the network file/printer sharing don't forget to add the local IPs into the trusted range on your personal (software) firewall!

HTH
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